Repetition_Task

A Made-Up, How-Does-It-Feel Spanish Repetition task I made ...

So I read about how sentence repetition tasks-- //simplyhaving a student repeat a sentence after hearing it once --// can serve as a measure of structure acquisition. If they "know" the grammar -- if they've acquired the vocabulary, pattern or structure -- they'll be able to repeat it. If the sentence has unknown or even incompletely acquired structures, they won't be able to repeat.

**I figured I might be able to repeat unfamiliar sentences phonetically, so I made my own test.** > > > @http://tiny.cc/jjwSpanishRepeat
 * I downloaded a list of paradigm sentences for the major verbal constructions (tenses and moods) in Spanish. The sentences use complex grammar but easy vocabulary. (Note: Sentence 2 uses the word "Oxford" -- which is almost impossible to understand when the computer says it. So that's a freebie...)
 * I then had Google Voice or Balabolka or something read it in pretty good machine Spanish. //Rita says the machine voice is garbled and is speaking too fast ... I could slow it down, but I already embedded all the clips and don't feel like re-doing it. But it's not speaking super-fast ... just regular-fast.//
 * And then I set up a self-test. It's here:


 * It's not scientific, but I learned that if I'm not ** really, really comfortable with the construction, then the sentences flies past me and is gone forever. (If I //really// know the grammar, I can repeat the sentence easily...)

Go figger.

Try it ...

John